As some of you may know I created the Snipping Tool power toy for the Tablet PC and an update is due to be released some time this summer (northern hemisphere). Being so close to the release of XP SP2 and thus the free update to the Tablet operating...

If you develop for Windows XP and want to take advantage of Tablet PC specific features when your application is run on a tablet, there's a simple way to find out. Just call the Win32 API GetSystemMetrics with the magic number 86: using System.Runtime...

If you develop applications for Windows XP, you should be interested in developing for the Tablet PC since any application that runs on Windows XP Professional will run on a tablet. With the release of the 2005 Edition of the Tablet PC OS and the associated...

I have seen several requests on the Tablet PC developer newsgroup and on gotdotnet.com about implementing fill functionality within ink strokes. Often the first attempt at implementing such an effect is to use actual ink but it quickly becomes obvious...

I have seen several requests on the Tablet PC developer newsgroup and on gotdotnet.com about implementing fill functionality within ink strokes. Often the first attempt at implementing such an effect is to use actual ink but it quickly becomes obvious that using ink strokes to fill a polygon is difficult, much like trying to color a picture with crayons and stay within the lines; not exactly a graphical technique suitable of the computer age....

I thought I'd give this blog thing a try. I think I'll primarily talk about developing rich client software for Windows, concentrating on managed WinForms with a special focus on Tablet PC development. For the Tablet PC: I wrote the Microsoft Snipping...